EZRA LEVANT | Trudeau's green policies leave little kids stranded in the cold
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Summary
In this week's show, we take a look at the dangers of leaving little kids stranded in the cold. Plus, the City of Edmonton sues Proterra for $82 million in damages, and the Dutch farmers who liberated Europe from food scarcity.
Transcript
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Green policies leave little kids stranded in the cold.
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Then Mark Morano of Climate Depot joins us to explain how Dutch farmers have liberated
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Europe from environmentalist-imposed food scarcity.
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, but you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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And I'll read a little bit of it to you as well because I hope you'll love it just as
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The owner of a 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning Lariat with an extended range battery regrets buying
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the electric truck after attempting a road trip only to abandon it and finish the drive
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Dalbir Bala of LaSalle, Manitoba left the truck in Minnesota last month after he said he tried
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unsuccessfully to charge the battery at two different charging stations.
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It was really a nightmare frustration for us, Bala said.
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Driving up to her cottage in Eastman last week, Barbara Andres had her mind on the storm.
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With her husband at the wheel of their brand new Nissan Leaf, they'd left home 75% charged.
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They didn't even think about a possible power outage.
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We had 60 kilometers left and I was going to go and plug the car in and shortly thereafter
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The outages across the province meant they were stuck.
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Hundreds of thousands of customers are without power across California,
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Last month, California shut down power in some areas to lower the risk of wildfires.
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Electric car company Tesla sent its customers alerts,
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warning them to charge up before the power went out.
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This expert from CAA Quebec says it's important to be prepared.
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It's really important that they start, that they fully charge
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and that if they have a longer stretch of road to cover
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I can see down here, you know, how much battery is left.
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Andres admits they're new to electric car ownership
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We didn't really think about the fact that it was going to use up that much kilometers.
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We didn't really think about the fact that maybe there might be an electrical power outage.
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Now, instead of relying only on the public charging stations,
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Andres got a charger installed at her cottage, so next time she'll be ready.
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Now, to add facts to these sorry circumstances and anecdotes,
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we've got Post Media's Lauren Gunter, who wrote this article last month,
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Since this is a country that experiences extreme cold weather
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that makes an EV electric vehicle an unacceptable risk,
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or at the very least, a horrible inconvenience.
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Also this week, the highly respected testing magazine Consumer Reports
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said that when temperatures are only as cold as plus 7 degrees Celsius,
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I wish, electric vehicles lose about 25% of their range
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compared to temperatures of plus 15 degrees Celsius,
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and a third when compared to temperatures of plus 25 degrees Celsius.
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Additionally, Consumer Reports found that short trips in the cold
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with frequent stops and the need to reheat the cabin after a parking pause
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That means electric vehicles may be impractical in Canada
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Late last year, Consumer Reports also concluded that electric vehicles
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As well, they were more expensive to maintain and repair,
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and when the cost of electricity and home chargers are included,
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electric vehicles are at least as expensive as gasoline vehicles to refuel.
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The city of Edmonton is seeking more than $82 million in damages
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from vehicle manufacturer Proterra in regards to a contract for electric buses.
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purchased 60 battery-operated buses from the California-based Proterra
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Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection is a form of bankruptcy proceedings
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that allow the businesses to continue operating while it works with creditors.
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In the original purchase contract for the buses,
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Proterra committed to numerous warranty obligations
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and claimed the buses would achieve a certain operating range.
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In the claim against Proterra filed February 2nd,
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the city of Edmonton says that the buses have never once,
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have never once achieved the operating range laid out in the contract,
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and there have been significant defects with the buses.
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Contrary to the contract specification that the buses would be suitably designed
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and would have an operating range of 328 kilometers or 268 kilometers in extreme cold,
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the range has consistently been much shorter, the claim says.
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On average, the bus range has been approximately 165 kilometers in the winter
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and, at best, 250 kilometers in warmer weather.
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Mechanical issues such as gearbox failures, steering box failures,
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So, we've got five years of electric bus catastrophes in the winter city of Edmonton.
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So, here comes the city of Ottawa, and they say,
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Under the city of Ottawa's climate change plan,
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to roll out 450 new battery-operated buses over five years.
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And transition to a fully zero-emission bus fleet by 2036.
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This also means retiring several hundred diesel-powered buses
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and replacing them with vehicles that cost twice as much.
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This is going to be an absolute mess for the city of Ottawa,
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are being made with other people's money, taxpayers' money.
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The green scam is stranding little kids in the Maritimes.
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its new electric school buses with much fanfare.
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I bet there wasn't actually much fanfare, by the way,
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except from the mainstream media and progressives.
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Now, some drivers say the buses are plagued with problems,
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with 16 to 18 of the vehicles in the shop at a time,
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which represents school bus drivers on the island,
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says he believes the provincial government rushed into buying the new buses
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and now students and drivers are paying the price.
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He said the biggest problems are the heating systems,
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leaving some buses icy cold and leading to windows fogging and freezing up.
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Excuse me, what about the little people on the bus getting cold?
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There are also issues with air compressors freezing,
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So not only are these things cold and unreliable,
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I mean, I feel like brakes are important on a school bus.
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One third of the school buses in PEI are electric,
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so it's a catastrophe waiting to get even worse.
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And people who thought they were doing the right thing
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by buying an electric truck, well, they got stranded.
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People who think they're doing the right thing by using public transit get stranded.
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by buying expensive electric buses are stranding commuters,
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because their school buses are electric and they just don't work.
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And so will the federal government rethink this mad pursuit
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of allowing the sale of only net zero vehicles in Canada
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by 2030 or 2035 or 2050 or whatever they've pegged the number at now?
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Because the federal government and those bureaucrats and those MPs,
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they'll get to use their private jets and their drivers,
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and you can stand in the cold, stranded with your children.
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Mark Marano from Climate Depot joins us up next
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to discuss a win for sanity and food security in Europe,
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So my monologue tonight was about how Canada at all costs
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seems to be pursuing green schemes, whether they work or not,
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whether the kids can get to school or not if they're riding an electric bus,
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It is unusual, however, for me as a Western Canadian farmer
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to see farmers being listened to around the world, finally,
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and that is somewhat the case right now in the Netherlands.
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and friend to the rebel Mark Marano of Climate Depot.
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the Dutch government was really completely off the rails.
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and months-long farmers' protests have, I think,
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that were being adopted by the Dutch government
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and the World Economic Forum and the United Nations.
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Now, first of all, net zero, just so we understand,
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or severe rationing of our energy, food supply,
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in 2015, they had the United Nations Paris Climate Agreement,
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But what happened was Sri Lanka was before the Netherlands,
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They had one of the highest ESG scores in the country.
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And, of course, the entire country's food supply
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And the peasants overran the presidential palace
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and went after and even swam in the swimming pool
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What this agenda demands in terms of agriculture,
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of energy, food, transportation, freedom of movement.
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which, in short, means cutting back on plentiful food,
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And of course, you have Bill Gates and Richard Branson
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It is technically meat because it's genetically derived
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And then they have to, of course, add coloring and texture.
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you see in the videos of McDonald's chicken nuggets.
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And they're softening us up by making food rationing
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And they have literally brought the EU to its knees.
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and emissions that they were previously demanding.